A Pipe is a device that directs the flow of data from a sensor to the place of the Pipe owner's c...
Public Lab is an open community which collaboratively develops accessible, open source, Do-It-Yourself technologies for investigating local environmental health and justice issues.
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February 05, 2015 23:01
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) is the missing plumbing between sensors and databases that will empower thousands of data journalists, civic hackers, farmers, etc. to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. When the OPK is ready, anyone will be able to build a Pipe for $60 of readily accessible parts, access the Pipe User Interface from a smartphone or PC, choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug the sensor into the Pipe, and then choose a location to stream data to. If the sensor or database you're hoping to use isn't on our list of drivers, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor or database back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Some of the first sensor drivers we are building include ...
Some of the first database drivers we are building include ...
Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are software and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and documentation, they call it Open Pipe Kit. The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. Join us!Join the conversation on this project, join our email group. |
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January 24, 2015 23:10
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) is the missing plumbing between sensors and databases that will empower thousands of data journalists, civic hackers, farmers, etc. to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. When the OPK is ready, anyone will be able to build a Pipe for $60 of readily accessible parts, access the Pipe User Interface from a smartphone or PC, choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug the sensor into the Pipe, and then choose a location to stream data to. If the sensor or database you're hoping to use isn't on our list of drivers, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor or database back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Some of the first sensor drivers we are building include ...
Some of the first database drivers we are building include ...
Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are software and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and documentation, they call it Open Pipe Kit. The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 16, 2014 20:14
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) is the missing plumbing between sensors and databases that will empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. When the OPK is ready, anyone will be able to build a Pipe for $60 of readily accessible parts, access the Pipe User Interface from a smartphone or PC, choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug the sensor into the Pipe, and then choose a location to stream data to. If the sensor or database you're hoping to use isn't on our list of drivers, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor or database back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Some of the first sensor drivers we are building include ...
Some of the first database drivers we are building include ...
Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are software and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and documentation, they call it Open Pipe Kit. The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 16, 2014 20:10
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) is the missing plumbing between sensors and databases that will empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. When the OPK is ready, anyone will be able to build a Pipe for $60 of readily accessible parts, access the Pipe User Interface from a smartphone or PC, choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug the sensor into the Pipe, and then choose a location to stream data to. If the sensor or database you're hoping to use isn't on our list of drivers, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor or database back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Some of the first sensor drivers we are building include ...
Some of the first database drivers we are building include ...
Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 16, 2014 20:10
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) is the missing plumbing between sensors and databases that will empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. When the OPK is ready, anyone will be able to build a Pipe for $60 of readily accessible parts, access the Pipe User Interface from a smartphone or PC, choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug the sensor into the Pipe, and then choose a location to stream data to. If the sensor or database you're hoping to use isn't on our list of drivers, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor or database back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Some of the first sensor drivers we are building include ... - Grove Dust sensor driver - Grove Moisture sensor driver - Grove Loudness sensor driver - Grove Temperature and Humidity sensor driver - Grove Air Quality sensor driver - Don Blair's Water Depth sensor driver for our friends in New Orleans who need flood alarms Some of the first database drivers we are building include ... - CSV data reservoir driver, for local data storage or remote storage over email - Xively reservoir driver, for remote data storage - Dat data reservoir driver, for local and/or remote data storage - Apitronics Hive database (uses CouchDB) reservoir driver, for local and/or remote data storage - Cloudant (uses CouchDB) for remote data storage Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 16, 2014 05:41
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit is the missing plumbing between sensors and the place where you want your data to flow. It's a software stack that lives on a widely available, small, and inexpensive Linux computer that gives you a User Interface controlled from your smartphone that allows you to pick your sensor driver and what database to stream the sensor data to. The Open Pipe Kit will empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 15, 2014 19:14
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 15, 2014 12:47
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 15, 2014 03:14
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 15, 2014 03:12
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 15, 2014 03:10
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit (OPK) developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 23:05
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into one data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 22:48
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into a data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 22:13
| almost 10 years ago
What is the Open Pipe Kit?The Open Pipe Kit developers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into a data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. Who are the OPK developers?The Open Pipe Kit developers are programmers and electrical engineers that have been building environmental monitoring solutions for data journalists and civic hackers for years. They have now figured out a way to empower 95% of these use cases with one piece of software and instructions known as the Open Pipe Kit. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! When the Minimum Viable Product for the Open Pipe Kit is ready, what can I expect to find?
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 21:32
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What is the Open Pipe Kit?OPK Volunteers are working on a set of documentation and software called the Open Pipe Kit that is going to empower thousands of data journalists and civic hackers to collect data without needing a programmer's assistance or being locked into a data platform from a proprietary turn-key solution. How can I get started?When the Open Pipe Kit is ready, the Open Pipe Kit documentation will illustrate how you can assemble Pipes from $60 of readily accessible parts. Choose a sensor from the list of supported sensors, plug it into the Pipe, and then use your smartphone to configure the Pipe to send data to a location of your choosing. If the sensor you're hoping to use isn't on our list of supported sensors, someone with programming knowledge can contribute a driver for that sensor back to the Open Pipe Kit project. It's Open Source! Minimum Viable Product: Goals for OPK's first prototype,
The Open Pipe Kit ManifestoOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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| 44 | rjstatic |
December 14, 2014 17:14
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What is a Pipe?A Pipe is a small device that connects to a sensor and sends data to a location of a user's choosing. Pipes can be built by nontechnical people from readily accessible parts such as the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and a $15 WiFi USB dongle. A Pipe is configured using an easy to use Graphical User Interface that is accessed over WiFi using a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. The Open Pipe Kit MissionOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
Minimum Viable Product: Goals for OPK's first prototype
The Open Pipe Kit usersWe are designing this project to be useful for the following groups:
In all of the above cases, there is a strong and growing need for a secure, simple, open, accessible, and reliable data collection infrastructure. This is what we intend the OPK to provide to these groups. More on Open Pipe Kit MissionThe Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 17:14
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What is a Pipe?A Pipe is a small device that connects to a sensor and sends data to a location of a user's choosing. Pipes can be built by nontechnical people from readily accessible parts such as the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and a $15 WiFi USB dongle. A Pipe is configured using an easy to use Graphical User Interface that is accessed over WiFi using a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. The Open Pipe Kit MissionOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
Minimum Viable Product: Goals for OPK's first prototype,
The Open Pipe Kit usersWe are designing this project to be useful for the following groups:
In all of the above cases, there is a strong and growing need for a secure, simple, open, accessible, and reliable data collection infrastructure. This is what we intend the OPK to provide to these groups. More on Open Pipe Kit MissionThe Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. |
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December 14, 2014 17:07
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What is a Pipe?A Pipe is a small device that connects to a sensor and sends data to a location of a user's choosing. Pipes can be built by nontechnical people from readily accessible parts such as the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and a $15 WiFi USB dongle. A Pipe is configured using an easy to use Graphical User Interface that is accessed over WiFi using a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. The Open Pipe Kit MissionOur mission is to develop a kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. The Open Pipe Kit usersWe are designing this project to be useful for the following groups:
In all of the above cases, there is a strong and growing need for a secure, simple, open, accessible, and reliable data collection infrastructure. This is what we intend the OPK to provide to these groups. Goals for OPK's first prototype
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December 14, 2014 07:48
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What is a Pipe?A Pipe is a small device that connects to a sensor and sends data to a location of a user's choosing. Pipes can be built by nontechnical people from readily accessible parts such as the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and a $15 WiFi USB dongle. A Pipe is configured using an easy to use Graphical User Interface that is accessed over WiFi using a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. The Open Pipe Kit MissionOur mission is to develop an easy to assemble kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. The Open Pipe Kit usersWe are designing this project to be useful for the following groups:
In all of the above cases, there is a strong and growing need for a secure, simple, open, accessible, and reliable data collection infrastructure. This is what we intend the OPK to provide to these groups. Goals for OPK's first prototype
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December 14, 2014 07:47
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What is a Pipe?A Pipe is a small device that connects to a sensor and sends data to a location of a user's choosing. Pipes can be built by nontechnical people from readily accessible parts such as the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and a $15 WiFi USB dongle. A Pipe is configured using an easy to use Graphical User Interface that is accessed over WiFi using a smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. The Open Pipe Kit MissionOur mission is to develop an easy to assemble kit for building Pipes that ...
The Internet has often been compared to a system of pipes. Imagine that these pipes carry water: for someone interested in collecting water from a local river in order to store it for later use, then, to date, nearly all the "Internet of Things" sensor data solutions are like companies that sell customers proprietary pipes and fittings designed to transport the user's water (sensor data) to a remote, hidden reservoir (a cloud-based server); and typically the user is then required to pay a fee in order to access this now-remote resource. We believe it is vital for people in the fields of sensor journalism, environmental monitoring, and agriculture to have full control over the data they collect, and to be able to use reliable, easily-acquired, open source hardware and software that can be modified and repurposed without permission. The Open Pipe Kit is a system designed to meet this need, based on a Raspberry Pi and Node.js. Users of OPK will be able to collect data from sensors and store it either locally (on microSD) or remotely on a server of their own choosing. The Open Pipe Kit usersWe are designing this project to be useful for the following groups:
In all of the above cases, there is a strong and growing need for a secure, simple, open, accessible, and reliable data collection infrastructure. This is what we intend the OPK to provide to these groups. Goals for OPK's first prototype
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